Inside The dangerously Empty Lives Of teenage Girls

Inside The dangerously Empty Lives Of teenage Girls

  Has one ever wondered what life would be like inside the dangerously empty lives of teenage girls? Dr. Leonard Sax, a family physician and founder of the national association for single sex public education and also the author of two previous books concerning the effects of gender differences on learning,, wrote an article called Inside the Dangerously Empty Lives Of Teenage Girls on May 10^th, 2010. This article is about how depressed teens (mainly girls) cope with their problem in a physically and mentally approach.

   Dr. Leonard Sax expresses how teenage girls deal with their anxiety problems and one of these ways are to use alcohol. He states that 1 in 4 girls in high school are “binge drinking.” This leads to a huge problem of alcohol abuse he states that, “55% of university students be treated for alcohol abuse are females.”

  He also states that teens are becoming more sexually intimate, having oral and intercourse sex, way more then they were 20 years ago. And that it’s just not the teenage boys who are pushing on the girls to have sexual relations with them but it’s the girls pushing on the boys to try and “raise [their] social status” in the eyes of the other girls.

  He also states that “24% of girls are cutting or burning themselves” because of the fact that girls have way more anxiety then boys do. And that there is only a small group population of boys that cut themselves and that they are usually the ones with no friends compared to the girls, where the captain of the high school cheerleading team has a higher chance of cutting herself than the average teenage girl.

  Dr. Leonard is right in his statements, he has the statistics to prove it and many of his psychologists will agree that parents need to control their teenage daughters more then their teenage boys. Because, of the extremes ways that the teenage girls are coping with their anxiety problems.